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Italian recipes: Pasta & Roses for a perfect Valentine’s dinner!

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Valentine’s day is approaching! Here you are an exclusive idea for those who would rather stay home with their lovers for a romantic dinner, instead of going to the restaurant!

Spaghetti & Roses

200 g di spaghetti
6o g thinly sliced ham
20 g butter
1 dl cream
20 g roses’ petals
salt

Choose the roses; they should be preferrably pink. Take the petals and clean them gently with a damp towel, cut them in thin slices and keep aside 6 whole petals.

Cut the ham into small cubes.

Stir fry the onion with some butter, add the ham, fry it for a while and add the cream.  When the cream starts boiling, add the cut petals and cook the sauce at medium heat for a few minutes.

Once cooked, put the spaghetti in the sauce’s pan and fry them for a while.  Serve them in a plate, decorated with the whole petals.

You will surprise your love!

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Italian recipes: Pesto!

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Pesto is one of the most known Italian pasta sauces, with his great flavour. But not everyone knows that it is very easy to prepare. You can choose to make it with mortar and pestle, as the tradition teachs, or if you have just a few time at your disposal you can just mix all the ingredients with a blender. Here you are the recipe :)

INGREDIENTS

  • 50 g basil leaves
  • 1 small fresh garlic glove
  • a pinch of cooking salt
  • 1 tablespoon full of pine nuts
  • 15 g of grated Italian sheep’s milk cheese
  • 15 g of grated Parmigiano Reggiano
  • 4 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil

DIRECTIONS

1. Prepare the ingredients
Wash the basil leaves in cold water and put them to drain on a cloth. Clean them cutting out the stalk. Peel the garlic glove.

2. Traditional preparation with mortar and pestle
Put the basil leaves, garlic, cooking salt and pine nuts in the mortar. Crash them slowly with the pestle with circular movements. When the basil is completely crushed, add the cheeses and start to crash again until you’ll get a homogeneous blend. Now add olive oil and keep working the sauce until it becomes smooth and creamy.
3. Preparation with the blender
Put all the ingredients together in a blender and mix them slowly, so the sauce won’t overheat.
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Italian food: Cannoli siciliani

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

The “Cannoli” are probably the most famous Sicilian desserts. Their names is due to the word cannolo, which in Sicilian means “little tube”. Because of the many Italians from Sicily living there, they are very popular also in America.

Our Cannoli are made of a tube-shaped shell of fried pastry dough, filled with a sweet filling usually made out of ricotta cheese and chocolate chips or succade; they are produced in various sizes, from the very small ones to the huge ones you can see in the original Sicilian confectioneries.

They were created in the Palermo area, for the period around Carnival (simbolizing fertility); however, now they can be eaten all year-round and are very good in Summertime also because of their freshness.

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Italian recipes: Sicilian Spaghetti!

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Summertime: blue skies and blue seaside! Here you are a perfect, fresh, savoury dish made by anchovies, which will suit your summer dinners.

Very easy to prepare, wonderfully tasting. Try to cook this spaghetti yourself…buon appetito!

Ingredients

  • 1 pound spaghetti
  • 4 tablespoons olive oil
  • 3 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1 (2 ounce) can anchovy fillets, chopped
  • 1 cup fine bread crumbs
  • 1 cup chopped fresh parsley
  • ground black pepper to taste
  • 4 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese

Directions

  1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
  2. Meanwhile, in a medium skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat and add garlic and anchovies to cook for about 2 minutes; stir constantly.
  3. Stir in breadcrumbs and turn off heat. Add parsley and black ground pepper; mix together.
  4. Toss anchovy sauce with hot pasta and sprinkle with cheese; serve.

(Source: Allrecipes)

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